Give thanks

Questions

1.  What is the point of Rick McKee’s cartoon?

2.  What are you thankful for this Thanksgiving?

3.  Do you think it is important/necessary for Americans and our leaders today to acknowledge God and His many blessings and protection on our country and in our own lives on Thanksgiving?  Explain your answer.

4.  Consider the following:

Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed a Thanksgiving to be observed on Thursday, November 30, 1933. “May we on that day in our churches and in our homes give humble thanks for the blessings bestowed upon us during the year past by Almighty God…” he wrote.

Like Lincoln, FDR recognized God as an ally of American soldiers in wartime. “God’s help to us had been great in this year of march toward worldwide liberty,” Roosevelt wrote in his 1943 proclamation. A year later he suggested “a nationwide reading of the Holy Scriptures during the period from Thanksgiving to Christmas.”

What do you think of President Roosevelt’s suggestion that Americans take part in “a nationwide reading of the Holy Scriptures during the period from Thanksgiving to Christmas”?

Read all Presidential Thanksgiving Proclamations at pilgrimhall.org

Scroll down to the bottom of the page for the answers.